As mental health among children becomes an increasing concern for health care providers and others across the country, an Amity Township woman believes she has a tool that can help. Karen Tripolitis ...

Mindfulness is being aware of all that is in the present moment — our feelings, the sensations in our bodies, the sounds, sights, and smells of the world around us. Mindfulness is noticing.

It’s normal for back-to-school anxiety to creep in as the summer days begin to count down. The unknown can be scary, as one wonders who their teacher will be, whether they will be with their friends, ...

Frequently, Sally Munoz, a third-grade teacher at Duchesne Academy in Houston, asks her students to pause for a moment of mindfulness. Sometimes she tells them to focus on the way they’re sitting.

In the children’s classic Olivia, the protagonist, a stylish Manhattan piglet, “is very good at wearing people out. She even wears herself out.” On a single page, author and illustrator Ian Falconer ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KABC) -- Practicing mindfulness has shown to have many physical and mental benefits for adults, but striking a yoga pose can also help children in many ways -- from promoting self ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - When you hear toddler, the phrase “terrible twos” would probably come to mind before “mindfulness.” At a local yoga studio, kids are adding some fitness to their daily routine and ...

At a time when stress in U.S. schools is on the rise, the results of a new study hammer home what others have shown: that yoga in schools may be a great benefit to kids’ mental health. The results, ...

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There's a new place for kids to relax and refocus in downtown Pittsboro. Kids Mindful Movement, a yoga and mindfulness studio designed for infants to teens, opened last month at 184 East St., ...

Developmental psychologist Amanda Moreno, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Chicago’s Erikson Institute, never really did yoga or meditated. But at a conference a few years ago, she had what she calls ...